Is there a town or city center type setting?

Toobis

In a scene I want the mayor of a city to give a superhero a trophy for her help protecting the people over the past year whilst on a stage with hundreds/thousands watching. I've looked at some good city settings for sale here and elsewhere but nothing in the products could really be used as a sort of outdoor open space town/city center. I don't mean an indoor town or city hall building I mean some type of outdoor intercity mass gathering spot where people would usually go for big announcements or events from known people. Any ideas on what I could use here? Maybe I could improvise with numerous products depending on their price but right now I don't know where to begin.

Catherine3678ab

Perhaps a gazebo in a park?  https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=gazebo

n.b. 'the park' doesn't necessarily come with the gazebos. Either kitbash from another set or use a plane and apply a shader to it.

Toobis

Catherine3678ab said:

Perhaps a gazebo in a park?  https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=gazebo

n.b. 'the park' doesn't necessarily come with the gazebos. Either kitbash from another set or use a plane and apply a shader to it.

appreciate you trying but a gazebo isn't really "BIG" enough relating to the event at hand. This is a big deal for the city as far as announcements/ceremony's go and the Mayor will be there also. Needed something more extravagant and kind of "official" looking sort of. I also need to put police around it.

richardandtracy

There are city centre HDRI's at HDRHaven that may be useful: https://hdrihaven.com/hdris/ There is a nice one of St Marks Square in the morning. Others may also be suitable.

watchdog79

Some of the modern themed Now-Crowd Billboards might be a good idea: https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=now-crowd

Sera

Maybe something like this? https://www.daz3d.com/mountain-valley

Richard Haseltine

Perhaps use these to build a near ground

https://www.daz3d.com/city-roads
https://www.daz3d.com/grovebrook-park

and then sets like

https://www.daz3d.com/streets

or various other building sets to put the built up areas around it. The actual stage could be done with

https://www.daz3d.com/bandstand

or just some primitives.

Toobis

I like some of these well done guys.

3dLux

For a metropolis, where the award ceremony might take place in a closed of intersection, you might use

https://www.daz3d.com/urban-sprawl-2-the-big-city

or build your own

https://www.daz3d.com/v3digitimes-buildings-and-skyscrapers-generator-vol-1

https://www.daz3d.com/contemporary-buildings-hyper-kit

 

for a cyberpunk city or one that’s set in Japan

https://www.daz3d.com/crossroads-city-blocks

 

Now-crowds, as mentioned, are good for populating scenes especially if you use a shallower DOF.

 

For the platform where the awarding takes place, primitives might be the way to go or this might work without walls

https://www.daz3d.com/stage-hand-building-set-and-scene-suite-34555

This could be used to seat the bigwigs

https://www.daz3d.com/have-a-seat

 

And for crowd control in front of the stage and in the intersection

https://www.daz3d.com/crowd-control-barriers

 

The above elements could also be used for staging an outdoor concert but with an HDRI/IBL background, and this freebie from the other store as the venue.